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  1. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    July, 2010
    Nicaragua

    El programa TERRENA (TERritorio Y REcursos NAturales), que Ingeniería Sin Fronteras desarrolla en la cuenca alta de Río Viejo (Nicaragua), tiene como objetivo reducir la vulnerabilidad en las áreas rurales empobrecidas, mediante la gestión integral y sostenible de recursos hídricos y del territorio, incluyendo la prevención y mitigación de riesgos de desastres, todo ello con un enfoque de cuenca hidrográfica.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2010
    Mexico, Central America, South America

    Background:

    The wild relatives of crops represent a major source of valuable traits for crop improvement. These resources are threatened by habitat destruction, land use changes, and other factors, requiring their urgent collection and long-term availability for research and breeding from ex situ collections. We propose a method to identify gaps in ex situ collections (i.e. gap analysis) of crop wild relatives as a means to guide efficient and effective collecting activities.

    Methodology/Principal Findings:

  3. Library Resource
    Manuals & Guidelines
    September, 2010
    Brazil

    (Artigo publicado em: Seminário Internacional de Curitiba - comunicações - Sessão temática "Projeto de Regularização Fundiária- Boas Práticas"l, setembro de 2010, Curitiba- PR.) O presente trabalho tece uma discussão teórica acerca dos instrumentos de recuperação das mais-valias fundiárias sob a perspectiva de gestão social da valorização do solo urbano, enfocando as possibilidades de otimização dos processos de regularização fundiária. Em linhas gerais, mais-valias fundiárias são incrementos sofridos pelo valor da terra, sejam decorrentes de esforço público ou privado.

  4. Library Resource
    Conference Papers & Reports
    December, 2010
    United States of America

    Herbicides account for approximately 2.2% of total farm expenses and are applied to more than80% of farmland in the USA. The widespread adoption of herbicides contributed to the increasedand relatively cheaper productivity of modern intensively managed agricultural systems indeveloped countries. The present study uses a hedonic framework to analyze the effect ofselected attributes on the price of corn and soybean herbicides. Two different empirical modelswere estimated separately for the two crops.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2010
    Brazil, Ecuador, Peru

    Between 2005 and 2009, the EU-financed project ForLive set out to analyse promising local forest management initiatives in the Amazon Basin in four countries: Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru. Researchers aimed to identify locally viable practices that benefit livelihoods and ecological stabilisation of landscapes, as well as to define ways to promote these practices as a basis for sound rural development. This book presents lessons learnt from more than 100 studies by researchers from Latin America, from practitioners and from local families themselves.

  6. Library Resource
    Multimedia
    December, 2010
    Costa Rica

    Este documental recopila la experiencia de las familias vecinas de Crucitas, Costa Rica y las implicaciones de los trabajos realizados para la apertura del espacio para minería a cielo abierto.

  7. Library Resource
    Multimedia
    December, 2010
    Bolivia

    Annalisa Maure, gerente de Programas de la Coalición Internacional para el Acceso a la Tierra, describe el panorama del acceso a la tierra en el mundo, Latinoamérica y Bolivia.

  8. Library Resource
    Policy Papers & Briefs
    April, 2010
    Bolivia

    Este documento ofrece un mapa de los actores institucionales multilaterales (BID, FIDA, BM, FAO, IICA, CEPAL, USAID, GTZ Y UE) de carácter financiero o técnico, que trabajan en la temática de desarrollo rural sudamericano.

  9. Library Resource

    Sustainability

    Peer-reviewed publication
    January, 2010
    United States of America

    Automobiles are a major source of CO2 emissions. Because there is no immediate technological fix to reduce these emissions, the most promising current strategy is to promote less automobile use. In the United States, this is difficult because federal programs such as the interstate highway system and local land use planning and regulation have encouraged suburban sprawl. In 2006, the state of California passed legislation to roll back greenhouse emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. This legislation did not link the roll back target with land use policies.

  10. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2010
    Burkina Faso, Bangladesh, Honduras, Guatemala, China, Indonesia, Australia, Bolivia, Congo, Mozambique, Vietnam, Madagascar, Tanzania, India, Senegal, Paraguay

    Este documento examina algunas de las respuestas técnicas, institucionales, políticas y financieras clave y necesarias para lograr una agricultura climáticamente inteligente que incrementa de manera sostenible la productividad, la resilencia (adaptación), reduce/elimina GEI (mitigación) y fortalece los logros de metas nacionales de desarrollo y de seguridad alimentaria.

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